_AND IT CAME TO PASS, WHEN ALL THE KINGS OF THE AMORITES, WHICH WERE ON THE SIDE OF JORDAN WESTWARD, AND ALL THE KINGS OF THE CANAANITES, WHICH WERE BY THE SEA, HEARD THAT THE LORD HAD DRIED UP THE WATERS OF JORDAN FROM BEFORE THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL, UNTIL WE WERE PASSED OVER, THAT THEIR HEART MELTE... [ Continue Reading ]
_AT THAT TIME THE LORD SAID UNTO JOSHUA, MAKE THEE SHARP KNIVES, AND CIRCUMCISE AGAIN THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL THE SECOND TIME._ At that time - on the encampment being made after the passage. THE LORD SAID UNTO JOSHUA, MAKE THEE SHARP KNIVES, х_ CHARBOWT_ (H2719) _ TSURIYM_ (H6697), sharp knives (cf... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND JOSHUA MADE HIM SHARP KNIVES, AND CIRCUMCISED THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL AT THE HILL OF THE FORESKINS._ At the hill. Probably one of the argillaceous bills that form the highest terrace of the Jordan, or a rising ground at the palm forest.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THIS IS THE CAUSE WHY JOSHUA DID CIRCUMCISE: ALL THE PEOPLE THAT CAME OUT OF EGYPT, THAT WERE MALES, EVEN ALL THE MEN OF WAR, DIED IN THE WILDERNESS BY THE WAY, AFTER THEY CAME OUT OF EGYPT._ This is the cause why Joshua did circumcise. The omission to circumcise the children born in the wilde... [ Continue Reading ]
_NOW ALL THE PEOPLE THAT CAME OUT WERE CIRCUMCISED: BUT ALL THE PEOPLE THAT WERE BORN IN THE WILDERNESS BY THE WAY AS THEY CAME FORTH OUT OF EGYPT, THEM THEY HAD NOT CIRCUMCISED._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND IT CAME TO PASS, WHEN THEY HAD DONE CIRCUMCISING ALL THE PEOPLE, THAT THEY ABODE IN THEIR PLACES IN THE CAMP, TILL THEY WERE WHOLE._ When they had done circumcising all the people. No mention is made of the two tribes and a half east of the Jordan; but it may be that the rite was performed amo... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE LORD SAID UNTO JOSHUA, THIS DAY HAVE I ROLLED AWAY THE REPROACH OF EGYPT FROM OFF YOU. WHEREFORE THE NAME OF THE PLACE IS CALLED GILGAL UNTO THIS DAY._ Rolled away the reproach of Egypt - the taunts industriously cast by that people upon Israel as nationally rejected by God by the cessatio... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL ENCAMPED IN GILGAL, AND KEPT THE PASSOVER ON THE FOURTEENTH DAY OF THE MONTH AT EVEN IN THE PLAINS OF JERICHO._ Kept the Passover on the fourteenth day of the month at even - the time fixed by the law (see Exodus 12:18; Leviticus 23:5; Numbers 28:16). Thus, the people h... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THEY DID EAT OF THE OLD CORN OF THE LAND ON THE MORROW AFTER THE PASSOVER, UNLEAVENED CAKES, AND PARCHED CORN IN THE SELFSAME DAY._ They did eat of the old corn, х_ MEE`ABUWR_ (H5669), grain; not "old corn," as in the English version]. This was conformably to the law (Leviticus 23:5). PARCHED... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE MANNA CEASED ON THE MORROW AFTER THEY HAD EATEN OF THE OLD CORN OF THE LAND; NEITHER HAD THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL MANNA ANY MORE; BUT THEY DID EAT OF THE FRUIT OF THE LAND OF CANAAN THAT YEAR._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND IT CAME TO PASS, WHEN JOSHUA WAS BY JERICHO, THAT HE LIFTED UP HIS EYES AND LOOKED, AND, BEHOLD, THERE_ _ STOOD A MAN OVER AGAINST HIM WITH HIS SWORD DRAWN IN HIS HAND: AND JOSHUA WENT UNTO HIM, AND SAID UNTO HIM, ART THOU FOR US, OR FOR OUR ADVERSARIES?_ When Joshua was by Jericho - in the im... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND HE SAID, NAY; BUT AS CAPTAIN OF THE HOST OF THE LORD AM I NOW COME. AND JOSHUA FELL ON HIS FACE TO THE EARTH, AND DID WORSHIP, AND SAID UNTO HIM, WHAT SAITH MY LORD UNTO HIS SERVANT?_ And he said, Nay, х_ LO'_ (H3808)] - No, used absolutely in answer to a question, 'I am not; i:e., a man eithe... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE CAPTAIN OF THE LORD'S HOST SAID UNTO JOSHUA, LOOSE THY SHOE FROM OFF THY FOOT; FOR THE PLACE WHEREON THOU STANDEST IS HOLY. AND JOSHUA DID SO._ For the place whereon thou standest is holy, х_ QODESH_ (H6944) _ HUW'_ (H1931)] - it is holiness (Exodus 3:5). FOR THE PLACE WHEREON THOU STANDES... [ Continue Reading ]